Grand Hotel
1932
Grusinskaya: I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.
Dr Otternschlag: Grand Hotel... always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.
Dr Otternschlag: When a man's collar is an inch too big for him I know he's ill.
Baron Felix von Geigern: (looking down from the sixth-floor balcony over the front desk) You know, I've often wondered what'd happen to that old porter if somebody jumped on him from here. Flaemmchen: I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you try it and find out?
Grusinskaya: Who are you? Baron Felix von Geigern: Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you. Grusinskaya: You could love me? Baron Felix von Geigern: I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are.
Grusinskaya: Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous and - But why am I telling you all this? Last night, I didn't know you at all. Who are you, really? Baron Felix von Geigern: What? Grusinskaya: I don't even know your name. Baron Felix von Geigern: (laughs) I am Felix Benvenuto Freihern von Geigern. My mother called me "Flix". Grusinskaya: (joyously) No! Flix! Oh, that's sweet. And how do you live? And what kind of a person are you? Baron Felix von Geigern: I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
Preysing: I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know.
(to Preysing, after he tries to get 'familiar' with her by asking her to call him by his first name) Flaemmchen: You know I always say that nothing should be left hanging over. And names are like that. Suppose I met you next year and said, 'How do you do Mr Preysing?' And you said, 'That's the young lady who was my secretary in Manchester.' That's all quite propper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.' (he laughs) Flaemmchen: Yeah, and you were with your wife. How would you like that?
Dr Otternschlag: Believe me, Mr Kringelein, a man who is not with a woman is a dead man.